On 8/17/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
We could probably implement something very similar to flickr's basic "use this image" approach with a link in the toolbox; a "select the size you want" page with preformatted HTML to use it and link back to us.
(eg/ http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1116183939&size=m )
Like - this? ;-) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Oorgatbrug_schematisch.jpg?withJS=Me...
I couldn't resist *that* temptation!!!
This would probably be the simplest thing to get up and running - he said, waving his hands - and probably more generally useful than most of the other API stuff. However, we'd still need to find a way of getting author and license information standardised, so that the tool could pull them in.
I'm working on that ;-)
I could probably "screenscrape" the categories and find those that look like a license.
Determining the author might prove harder. There's the upload log (latest uploader if multiple?) and possible screenscraping of the Information template. Tricky.
Help is welcome! :-)
Magnus